Car-seal.



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APPLICATION FILED APR.17. 1906.

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CAR-SE AL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 1.7 1906- Berial No. 3l2l159 Patented Jan. 14, 190 8.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, EDWARD S. Pinon, citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha,-

turn folded one upon the other over and to inclose the section, which it will be noted is spaced from the adjacent portion of the in the county of Douglas and State of Nebody to form in conjunction with the folded arms a longitudinally extending chamber 9 braska, have invented new and useful Inipl'ovements in Car-Seals, of which the followin is a specification.

his invention relates to, seals of the type employed for securing freight car doors and has for its objects to produce-a comparatively simple, inexpensive device of this character which, in practice, will eificiently pcr-- form its functions, one wherein the ends of the seal maybe conveniently and securely interlocked, and one in which the interlocking ends of the seal will be firmly and strongly united, thus obviating opening of the seal exce; tb breakage.

Vit these and other objects in view, the invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of, parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a seal embodyiin the invention Fig. 2 an elevation, partly in section, of the same. Fig. 3 is a face view of the seal blank.

Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that the improved seal, which is composed of sheet or stra metal, comprises a cruciform member or b ank 1 presenting a major portion or section 2, a minor portion or section The blank having been reduced by stamping or otherwise, the sea is completed in the following manner. T he outer end of section is folded backward upon the body portion of thelatter to form a hook 5 having an inturned engaging portion or auxiliary hook 6 produced by, foldin the terminal of book 5 backward upon itself, while the outer end of section. 3 is bent in like manner but in a relatively reverse direction to form an inturned hook 7 designed for engagement with the hook and an auxiliary inturned engaging portion or hook 8 for interlocking engagement with the ortion 6. After forming hooks 7 and 8, tie section 3 is folded at a point adjacent its inner end backward upon the body and within the compass of the rectohguler transverse portions or arms 4 which are in adapted to receive the end of section 2, as wi l previously shaped section 3 and moved for-- wardly until the hook 5 is carried beyondhook 7 and then drawn rearward fo effecting interlocking engagement of said h ks, after which a slig t forward movement of hook 5 clients an engagement of auxiliary hook 6 with the companion hook 8, thus to prevent disengagement of hooks 5 and 7. If desired, however, the hooks on the ends of the sec tions may be interlocked by means of a rela tive lateral movement, after first bringing the ends together, one alongside the other, so that the hooks can be engaged by slipping the hooks of one end in the hooks of those of the other end. The arms 4 of the rectangular portion of the blank are then bent over the interlocked hooks, as shown in Fig. 1.

it is to be particularly observed that the.

chamber 9 isof a length to cover the hooks 5, 6, 7 and 8,. and that the arms 4 when folded, over the hooks serve not only to close the sides of the chamber but also to elfectuallyret ain the said hooks in locked position. it is apparent that after the seal has been looked through interengagcment of the hooks 5 and (5, respectively, with the hooks 7 and 8 it will be impossible to open-the seal except by breaking the same. After the ends of the. rectangular portion are folded, as shown in Fig. 2, the overlapping ends are secured togcther, as by solder or cement, as shown at 10 and H, Fig. This solder also serves to secure the bends 13 on the minor section 3 to the oven-lapping ends of the rectangular por tion 4.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim is: I

1. A car seal comprising a blank'having a rectangular"port-ion and alining major and minor strips, the latter strip being of greater length than the width of the rectangular"portion and doubled succcssivelyon itself a numher of times and extending across the saidpo'rtion, the inajgtir. strip being doubled to form a loop and having its ex tremity bent back on itself to engage the l 3. A car seal comprising ablank having a doubled portions of the minor strip, the ends of the rectangular portion being bent over the interlocking parts of the strips and forming a housing open at both ends, and soldered joints between the edges of the rectangular portion and two of the, bends of the minor strip that extendout of the ends of the housing.

2. A car seal comprising a sheet metal ing bent into a loop and doubled twice on itself in a large and small bend, the extremity of the major strip bearing against the rectangular portion and engaged with. the bent minor strlp by a lateral movement, and the ends of the rectangular portion be1ng bent one after tithe other over the interlocking parts of the strips, and means for securing the ends of the rectangular portion together.

. widt blank having a rectangular portion and alinrectangular portion and alining major and minor strips extending oppositely from the long edges of the portion, t ing bent back on itself at three points, the bends being of successively diminishing size from the inner to the outer end of the said strip, the, larger and intermediate bends being s )aced apart a distance greater than the of the said rectangularportion, the major strip being doubled twice on itself and interlocked with the minor strip by a lateral movement and bearing directly on the said rectangular portion, the ends of the rectan e minor strip be-' gular portion being bent over the interlocking parts of the strips to form a housingtherefor open at both ends through which the largest and intermediate bends of the minor strip extend, and soldered joints between the edges of the rectangular portion and projecting bends of the minor strip.

In testimony whereof, I allix mysignatu-re in presenceoi' two witnesses.

EDWARD PRIOR;

Witnesses:

HENRY L. DANA", lIAnoL'n F. SEYMOUR. 

